The Future This Week: November 20, 2017

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” –George Carlin

Ah, the moon; so close, and yet so far away. Has it really been almost fifty years since Neil Armstrong took his one small step for man? Now, finally, the race is on to go back to our nearby celestial neighbor. But in 1969, the only motivation was to win a race that was instigated by the cold war. Now there is different driver in play. It’s money; many of the new players, in what is now a multi-way competition, are commercial ventures.

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